Posted on 05/15/2013 3:17:28 PM PDT by Morgana
The Lt. Governor of Texas is today demanding an investigation of an abortion practitioner who is considered the second Kermit Gosnell.
A new video released yesterday has three former abortion clinic employees of abortion practitioner Douglas Karpen exposing horrific practices that took place at his abortion clinic.
The three informants, Deborah Edge, Gigi Aguliar, and Krystal Rodriguez, have come forward to tell of their horrific experiences working for him at one of three of his Texas abortion clinics, the Aaron Women’s Clinic in Houston. A fourth informant has co-operated with Operation Rescue, filing an affidavit about her experiences, but remains at this time anonymous.
These women brought forward evidence of illegal late-term abortions in the form of photos taken on their cell phones at the Karpen’s clinic on Schumacher Lane in Houston.
The photos were scandalous. They depicted two babies aborted well beyond the legal limit of 24 weeks in Texas. Their necks had been cut.
“The photos show babies that are huge, with gashes in their necks, indicating that these babies were likely born alive, then killed, just as Kermit Gosnell did at his ‘House of Horrors’ clinic in Philadelphia,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “In fact, there are numerous similarities between Karpen and the Gosnell case, including the disregarding of complaints by the authorities that allowed both men to continue their illegal operations.”
That a second Kermit Gosnell would be operating in Texas is so revolting that Lt. Governor David Dewhurst is demanding an investigation.
“In a week when serial murderer Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of killing babies, I read with disgust about the allegations of Houston-based abortionist Douglas Karpen performing illegal late-term abortions surrounded by appalling sanitary conditions in his clinic,” he said.
“The Harris County authorities should perform a full-scale investigation and take action against those who broke state law,” he added.
Dewhurt previously talked about the conviction of Gosnell, a Philadelphia-based abortion practitioner.
“The tragedies and horrors that unfolded in the offices of Dr. Kermit Gosnell justifiably shocked the nation, and a Pennsylvania jury has held him accountable for his unspeakable role in the deaths of at least three babies,” he said. “While I support a ban on all abortions except in situations that threaten the life of the mother, the gruesome and unsanitary conditions of the clinic and Dr. Gosnell’s appalling actions highlight why we must raise standards at abortion clinics and ensure that patients have ready access to hospital facilities should a grave medical emergency arise during an abortion procedure.”
The video interview of the three informants verified the worst.
“When he did an abortion, especially an over 20 week abortion, most of the time the fetus would come completely out before he cut the spinal cord or he introduced one of the instruments into the soft spot of the fetus, in order to kill the fetus,” said Deborah Edge, who worked as a surgical assistant for Karpen for about 15 years until leaving in March, 2011.
“I thought, well, it’s an abortion you know, that’s what he does, but I wasn’t aware that it was illegal…Most of the time we would see him where the fetus would come completely out and of course, the fetus would still be alive,” Edge continued.
How often did this happen?
“I think every morning I saw several, on several occasions,” she said. “If we had 20-something patients, of course ten, or twelve, or fifteen patients would be large procedures, and out of those large procedures, I’m pretty sure that I was seeing at least three or four fetuses that were completely delivered in some way or another,” said Edge, acknowledging that these babies would be alive.
She described how some babies would emerge too soon and would be alive, moving, and breathing. She also told of how Karpen would sometimes deliver the babies feet first with the toes wiggling until he stabbed them with a surgical implement. At the moment the toes would suddenly splay out before going limp. Sometimes he would kill the babies by “twisting the head off the neck,” according to Edge.
During the interview the former abortion clinic employee says: “the fetus would come completely out and of course, the fetus would still be alive” and the abortion clinic employee added “I’m talking about the whole floor dirty. I’m talking about me drenched in blood.”
One abortion clinic employee is quoted as saying, “I thought, well, it’s an abortion you know, that’s what he does, but I wasn’t aware that it was illegal. Most of the time we would see him where the fetus would come completely out and of course, the fetus would still be alive.”
“He does a lot of huge abortions. A lot of the times, we would bring the big fetus that were over age, we would re-open the bag and just look at it and be like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s so big,” the abortion clinic staffer adds. “Sometimes he couldn’t get the fetus out. He would yank pieces – piece by piece – when they were oversize. And I’m talking about the whole floor dirty. I’m talking about me drenched in blood.”
Dear God...
.
This is what the feminazis promote.
and they just kept working there....
Well, she didn’t know it was illegal.
/sarc
yeahhhhh. Of course she didn’t.
She stayed at this chamber of horrors for 15 years???
From all I have read up on these clinic workers some of them may not know.
These clinics have a practice of hiring the most uneducated people they can so they don’t have to pay them much. RN’s? LPS’s? You must be kidding me? That is their one of their main violations is not having a RN on staff at all times. Gosnell’s staff had med school drop outs, eight grade drop outs, and one high school girl working there. I seriously think one has to have a high school diploma to work at McDonalds, but having a body temp of 98.6 allows a person to work at an abortion clinic.
There is no telling how many of these butcher shops exist across the country. Dear God, help us help the innocents.
> Well, she didn’t know it was illegal.
Best one liner of the day. You made my ribs hurt, man...lol
Most of the women who work in these clinics are uneducated and desperatly need the job. In the area they live Planned Parenthood pays the best. This is why many pro life groups are now offering programs to help office workers quit. They know the office workers (many of them) want to quit but have children to feed. So they help them find better jobs and sometimes get better education to do so.
:-)
Laughter keeps us sane!
I knew that. :P
So Lt. Gov. Dewdrop has asked Houston to investigate? I’m sure the Gay Democrat Mayor and the Democrat Chief of Police will jump right on that.
Since this group also has at least one clinic in Dallas, it now involves two known cities so I would think that AG Abbott would be doing the investigation.
Sent this article to Channel 11 in Houston (CBS) last night. They did cover it briefly on the 5 p.m. news today and said they will investigate. Not much but it’s a start.
Would like to get the largest Planned Parenthood Clinic in the U.S. which is located in Houston shut down while we’re at it.
True, they may not know and there is no woman who understands being in a desperate financial situation more than I do.
That is why I don’t judge her - but, she knows.
She was covered in blood? The bloody floor?
She knows.
They ALL know, and one day it will hit those among them who really aren’t monsters, and I do not envy them their agony and remorse.
Sickening no matter where they are, but this one really caught me (and hubby) off guard.
I knew that. :P
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But did you know it first?
:-P
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